Han Kang has won this year's Nobel Prize in literature, the Swedish Academy announced Thursday, becoming the first South Korean writer to receive the honor and the first Asian woman to do so.The prize was awarded to Han "for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life," the award-giving body said.Han is the second South Korean Nobel laureate after Kim Dae Jung, who was awarded the peace prize in 2000 while he was serving as the country's president.The 53-year-old is best known for her 2007 novel "The Vegetarian" that won the Internation…READ FULL ARTICLE
